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Parkstone North

Helping you build a stronger, more successful business
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About

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Chris is driven by the desire to make people’s life easier. He can identify quick and simple solutions to broken processes or dysfunctional systems. With a supportive and collaborative approach he helps your people own both the problem and the solution to get the best long term outcome.

Marcus Green, CFO, Platinum Stairlifts

Chris is without doubt one of the most concise and considered voices around the table. I hold his experience and approach across any project, situation, task or working relationship in high value and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to any of my contacts.

Nicky Hoyland, CEO, Huler

Chris was imperative in advising my business and getting the basics right! His knowledge, commercial acumen and helpfulness was second to none and I will continue to use Parkstone North to grow and push my business forward.

Adam Mobley, MD, Harrison Carloss

Chris was fantastic to work with. He provided challenge to the decision makers, always tried to reduce complexity within processes, and was a strong advocate for the use of data both to ensure effective decisions were being taken, and measure their impact.

James Walker, CFO, MCG

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Parkstone North was formed to work with business owners and their teams to solve problems and improve overall organisational performance by utilising the experience and skills gained in over 20 years of business and finance across various sectors and market conditions.

“Every business has its opportunities and its challenges – some it can control and some it cannot. Having experienced this first hand, I know that there is never enough time in the day to achieve all the things you want to, or perhaps you don’t have the expertise around you to take advantage of opportunities that arise. Therefore, you end up either choosing to miss out or, conversely, take on too much and create more problems as a result.

Parkstone North is here to help support you with the additional resource where it is needed the most, using a pragmatic approach that will be both impactful and valuable to you and your team.”

Chris Chapman

Approach

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Our Approach

“Look, listen and learn”

Every business is different, because everybody is different; the way things are done, the way we communicate, what we sell and how we sell it. At Parkstone North we provide specific guidance based on understanding each individual business we work with.

We are flexible in our approach, but fundamentally we want to work with those individuals that are responsible for the challenge at hand, educating where we can and providing the means to succeed in the future. This collaborative approach should provide a positive, rewarding experience and not just feel like a transaction. No matter the challenge, there are four main areas to consider:

1. People

The most important part. People are an organisation’s biggest asset but often if mismanaged or misdirected, can be its biggest liability. Key areas to look at are structure, culture, communications, capability and performance management.

2. Products

What is being sold, why people buy it, who else is selling it (or something similar) and how it could be improved.

3. Processes

Fundamental to making the business as efficient as possible as well as ensuring quality and legal criteria are consistently met and monitored. This includes the systems we use to do things and how that is documented so processes can be repeated and performed.

4. Performance

To really succeed, it is essential a business moves away from making decisions on a “feels like” basis to a data driven, evidence basis to ensure everyone is making more of the right choices. How can we better use our historic data to predict our future prospects and present this in a meaningful way.

Services

Our services are split into three sections, please hover over the image to learn more:

Short-term

Short-term

One off or time critical work where you either do not have the time, or perhaps the skill set in the current business:

  1. i.Urgent problems / challenges that require additional support
  2. ii.Transaction support (assessment/modelling/process/integration)
  3. iii.Management Information pack creation/improvement
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Medium term

Medium term

Let’s learn about the business, challenge what is currently done and work together to drive value, with recommendations to achieve your goals that you can implement over your desired time frame:

  1. i.Review and recommendations to improve current strategy
  2. ii.Business process improvement
  3. iii.System change or implementation
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Longer term

Longer term

Working with you over the longer term to ensure you achieve the results you want and have any extra support you may need:

  1. i.Non-exec, board level support
  2. ii.Mentoring / coaching
  3. iii.Performance monitoring
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